Naturaleza y cultura en América Latina. Dinámica demográfica, calidad de vida y riesgos ambientales. Naturaleza, bienestar y malestar en la Argentina a principios del siglo XXI

In this work we will study the relationship among environmental risks, demographic dynamics and grade of Argentinean population’s well-being. These dimensions are mediated by culture in the argentine territory. For environmental risks we will use fl ood problems, earthquake, tornadoes and land deterioration; for demographic dynamics we will use inter-census growth and migratory balances. And for measuring the grade of Argentinean population’s well-being we will use a specially made for index. We will use for that a GIS, in which we will have, on fi rst term, the digitization of the respective layers of environmental risks; in second term we will have the information on demographic dynamics and, fi nally, we will have a synthetic index of population’s well-being. This synthetic index is built starting from a pondered combination of signifi cant indicators of environmental and socioeconomic dimensions like education, health and housing. Starting from an operation of overlapping of layers we will be able to size for each one of the environmental risks the demographic balance and the grade of well-being of Argentinean population’s different segments. This will allow us to size and to oppose the grades of well-being and the demographic dynamics according to the grade of affectation of each one of the considered physical-environmental events, allowing also establishing scenarios for the projection of these phenomena in the mark of the process of global environmental change.